Tag Archives: phishing

In a recent article ‘A new method to educate users about spam?‘ by Dan Blacharski, the U.S. Department of Justice tested and educated employees with fake phishing scams.  This phishing scam “fire drill” provides an excellent training lesson that more …

Social networking sites are becoming increasingly popular with cybercriminals. And now Digg.com has joined the ranks of Web 2.0 services being used to lure unsuspecting visitors to malicious sites. Both bogus accounts and compromised legitimate accounts are being used to …

Phishing is an example of social engineering techniques used to take advantage of human ignorance. It allows unscrupulous people to exploit the weaknesses in web security technologies. How did Phishing come about? The word “phishing” originally came from the analogy …

I read about a very innovative, though probably unlikely solution to the global spam problem in Glyn Moody’s column on Computerworld UK. Glyn takes note of the recent revelation that the US Justice Department sent out phishing emails to its …

Here’s yet another example of spammers and phishers going off the traditional path to try a new bag of tricks. Fortunately, this one didn’t work. Alley Insider carried a fascinating account and transcription of an IM discussion, where a Nigerian …

The article “In-session phishing holds new potential for attack” by Dan Blacharski is worth another read. If you have not done so, I highly recommend reading this article.  Dan provides important information on the most dangerous of all phishing expeditions …

Spam filtering software has gotten quite good at catching and eliminating many email-based phishing attacks. Traditionally, these emails disguise themselves so that they appear to be from a legitimate source, and trick the recipient into providing login details or account …

An article in The Register points to a very thorough piece of research by two Microsoft researchers, which holds that the common belief that phishers are raking in the dough is false. Spamming and phishing are often portrayed as highly …

A new type of phishing scam that uses Google’s Calendar service is making the rounds. The scam first appeared last summer, and has reappeared last week, according to reports. The phish appears as a Google Calendar email notification, and it …

Phishing is an estimated $3 billion a year industry and the costs incurred by companies who fall victim to such attacks are rising steadily. So says a report by security monitoring firm Cyveillance. Among those costs are fraudulent charges on credit cards, …